Leviticus 23:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מוֹעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־תִּקְרְא֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם מִקְרָאֵ֣י קֹ֑דֶשׁ אֵ֥לֶּה הֵ֖ם מוֹעֲדָֽי׃

Transliteration

dabbēr ʾel-bənê Yiśrāʾēl wə-ʾāmartā ʾălēhem môʿădê YHWH ʾăšer-tiqrəʾû ʾōtām miqrāʾê qōdeš ʾēlleh hēm môʿădāy

Grammar Details

• *dabbēr*: Piel imperative, masculine singular - speak/say
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/unto
• *bənê*: construct noun, masculine plural - sons of/children of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wə-ʾāmartā*: waw consecutive + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall say
• *ʾălēhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - unto them
• *môʿădê*: construct noun, masculine plural - appointed times/feasts of
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that/whom
• *tiqrəʾû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall call/proclaim
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *miqrāʾê*: construct noun, masculine plural - convocations/assemblies of
• *qōdeš*: noun, masculine singular - holiness/sacredness
• *ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun, plural - these
• *hēm*: 3rd person masculine plural pronoun - they/these
• *môʿădāy*: noun, masculine plural + 1st singular suffix - my appointed times/feasts

Word Meanings

• *môʿădê*: appointed times/feasts/festivals/seasonal celebrations
• *tiqrəʾû*: you shall call/proclaim/announce/summon
• *miqrāʾê*: convocations/holy assemblies/sacred gatherings
• *qōdeš*: holiness/sacredness/that which is set apart

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:4 : 4 ¶ These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
• Lev 23:37 : 37 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
• Hos 2:11 : 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
• Exod 23:14-17 : 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
• Num 10:10 : 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I [am] the LORD your God.
• Num 29:39 : 39 These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
• Joel 2:15 : 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
• Jonah 3:5-9 : 5 ¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands. 9 Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
• Nah 1:15 : 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
• John 5:1 : 1 ¶ After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• Col 2:1 : 1 ¶ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and [for] them at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
• 2 Kgs 10:20 : 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed [it].
• 2 Chr 30:5 : 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was written.
• Exod 32:5 : 5 And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD.
• Lev 23:21 : 21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Isa 1:13-14 : 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
• Isa 33:20 : 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
• Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.
• Joel 1:14 : 14 ¶ Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land [into] the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
• Lev 23:44 : 44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
• Num 10:2-3 : 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.